Space heating represents a major part of households and commercial buildings’ energy consumption, with around 70% of the whole final energy consumption. This heating demand is currently mainly covered by conventional boilers, fuelled by fossil energies such as gas, oil or coal. In a context of a...
In order to fill the 'EU regulatory gap' caused by the mismatch between the single market programme and the lack of EU regulatory capacity, a number of EU regulatory agents were created. Committees, networks and EU agencies mushroomed in order to fulfil different regulatory functions. The thesis...